The Fall were good - not as blinding as earlier this year at the same venue , but still good. I think that's partly because in March I would have been impressed if MES had lasted longer than 10 mins, such was the man's reputation at the time, but the band is young and plays very tight garage R'n'R...good stuff.
Another English eccentric, Ray Davies...I am enjoying the Kinks 'Village Green Preservation Society' which I've never heard before. I only have one Kinks LP which isn't a 'greatest hits' which is pretty shameful really as I reckon RD to be, on his day, the equal of Lennon and McCartney and Townsend in the Greatest English Songwriter stakes.
Ears still ringing from the Fall, I laid off the iPod today...
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I don't agree that Ray Davies is the equal to Pete Townshend, which is not to criticise Davies at all. Once I've copied the Townshend stuff for you, you'll understand. From the death of Keith Moon, with Townshend focusing using his best songs for his solo work rather than the Who, he had a relatively brief renaissance. The humour and piss taking of Uniforms ("On my parka there's a band / I don't really understand", about the Mod revival of the early 80s), Secondhand Love - about betrayal, and Rough Boys - an admission of being gay? Or at least of having gay experiences?
you won't stop talkin!
why don't you give it a rest?
you got more rabbit than Sainsbury's
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